April 8th, 2042

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April 8th, 1968

BOAC Flight 712 experienced an engine fire shortly after take-off from London Heathrow, leading to the deaths of five people on board, including flight attendant Jane Harrison, who was posthumously awarded a George Cross for heroism.

April 8th, 1959

A team of computer scientists and others met to discuss the creation of a common business-oriented programming language that became COBOL.

April 8th, 1943

Otto and Elise Hampel were executed in Berlin for performing acts of resistance against Nazism.

April 8th, 1942

World War II: The United States Army Air Forces flew its first mission from India over the Hump (the eastern end of the Himalayas) to deliver materiel to China.

April 8th, 1933

The Australian state of Western Australia voted to secede from the federation, but efforts to implement the result proved to be unsuccessful.

April 8th, 1911

American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.

April 8th, 1904

France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict.

April 8th, 1864

American Civil War: Late-arriving reinforcements helped Confederate forces rout the Union Army at the Battle of Mansfield.

April 8th, 1630

Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased land near present-day Albany, New York, to found the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, which became the most successful patroonship under the Dutch West India Company.

April 8th, 1271

Crusades: The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Krak des Chevaliers, a castle in present-day Syria, to the army of the Mamluk sultan Baibars.

April 8th, 0876

Abbasid forces decisively defeated those of Saffarid emir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing the latter to halt his advance into Iraq.

April 8th, 0217

Roman emperor Caracalla (pictured) was assassinated near Harran and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect Macrinus.

April 8th, 1820

A Greek peasant discovered a statue of a woman with its arms missing—the Venus de Milo—on the Aegean island of Milos.

April 8th, 1960

The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.

April 8th, 1959

The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 8th

Birthdays and future age on April 8th, 2042

40

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

62

Katee Sackhoff

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Portland

73

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

81

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

95

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

66

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

45

Face

Russian rapper

*April 8th, 1997, Ufa

67

Keiko Yoshitomi

Japanese badminton player

*April 8th, 1975, Fukuoka Prefecture

38

Liu Shengshu

Badminton player

*April 8th, 2004, Liaoning

95

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

66

Maja Pohar

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Ljubljana

79

Dean Norris

American actor

*April 8th, 1963, South Bend

86

Jim Piddock

British actor

*April 8th, 1956, Rochester

76

Robin Wright

American actress

*April 8th, 1966, Dallas

83

Michael Hübner

East German road bicycle racer

*April 8th, 1959, Chemnitz

74

Patricia Arquette

American actress (born 1968)

*April 8th, 1968, Chicago

61

Lito Sheppard

American football player, cornerback

*April 8th, 1981, Jacksonville

72

Will Bond

American politician

*April 8th, 1970, Jacksonville

63

Marzena Sowa

Comic author

*April 8th, 1979, Stalowa Wola

56

Igor Akinfeev

Russian association football player

*April 8th, 1986, Vidnoye

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